--- In [email protected], "Jeff Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My intention is to understand and > discuss. Not attack or make wrong, but understand. Bob B in an > early post used the word "worship" when responding to my inquiry.
******* You have completely misunderstood and misrepresented what I said in a previous post. What I said is that Indians, in their gesture of greeting "namaste" (namah plus te, "you" in sanskrit) which means something like I worship the divine in you. In TM, with advanced techniques or not, we are "worshipping" the infinite divine within by transcending, and on the way to transcending, we greet the subtle levels of creation on the way, which has a harmonizing influence on the meditator and on the creation: When people meet in India, they bow and say "namaste," which is about the same as what is done in advanced techniques: http://www.namastecafe.com/library/trans.htm So, it's traditional in Hindu culture to bow down to the divine in everybody, so it's not really an unusual sort of worship to employ namah in TM advanced techniques, since one in TM is on the path to the universal soul, the transcendental reality which is the divine nature. The purpose of the additional syllables (namah and so on) is to slow down transcendence, so that one gains more familiarity with the subtle and powerful levels of creation, in order to have a fuller experience of Cosmic Consciousness. Hindus properly practicing advanced TM techniques, as well as those practicing basic TM, are instructed to regard the mantras, advanced or not, as meaningless sounds during the period of meditation. Outside of meditation, Hindus assign values that non-Hindus who practise TM do not. But, whether Hindu or not, people who are properly practicing TM and its advanced techniques are not thinking about gods (or impulses of creative intelligence, or angels, or whatever one regards as more powerful, subtle, or celestial levels of existence) or bowing down to gods. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
